The Blue Fairy Book, The Wonderful Sheep, part 3, sentence 3
At this the Princess could no longer contain herself; throwing herself at the King’s feet, she cried out:
Who acts: feast · What happens: contain, throw, cry out · To what, where: feast, feet
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Wonderful Sheep, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (feast), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | At | at | ADP | _ | 4 Princess | case |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 Princess | det |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Princess | det |
| 4 | Princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 contain | obl |
| 5 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 contain | aux |
| 6 | no | no | ADV | _ | 7 longer | advmod |
| 7 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 8 contain | advmod |
| 8 | contain | contain | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 8 contain | obj |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 throwing | punct |
| 11 | throwing | throw | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 contain | advcl |
| 12 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 11 throwing | obj |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 17 feet | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 King | det |
| 15 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 feet | nmod:poss |
| 16 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 15 King | case |
| 17 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 throwing | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 cried | punct |
| 19 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 cried | nsubj |
| 20 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 contain | conj |
| 21 | out | out | ADP | _ | 20 cried | compound:prt |
| 22 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 contain | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | contain | could | feast | at this Princess; long property | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot herself=Theme | ||||
| 2 | throw | gerund | feast | the King's feet | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent herself=Theme at foot=Destination | ||||
| 3 | cry out speech: express | past | feast | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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